Free Missionary Plaque Pictures

I served a full time LDS mission to the Brazil São Paulo North mission many moons ago. I loved my mission and I know how hard it is to afford to go on a mission (missionaries and their families must pay their own way). And because of this, I like to give back to the community, to help the next missionary along.

My offer is simple. I'll do a free portrait session and provide free of charge the wallet sized prints needed for the church plaque as well as for mom and dad's wallets. (larger prints may be purchased if desired, but are not necessary to get the free session and wallets)

Most often I do these missionary portraits in my studio. But every now and then I'll do photos on location. Here are a few samples of the my missionaries:















And some times we just get to have a bit more fun.... :)

Tyler and Carolina Get Hitched!

THEY DID IT! Tyler and Carolina are married!

It seems like only yesterday that I was taking pictures of Tyler's Proposal to Carolina at my brother-in-law's cabin.  And it seems like only a week or two before that when I introduced Tyler to Carolina for the Trash the Dress and Suit photo shoot at the Grotto.  And in the mean time, I took pictures for Carolina's bridals and Tyler's groomals, and finally.... they did it.  On

 January 22nd Tyler and Carolina were wed in the LDS Oquirrh Mountain Temple.

Here are some highlights from their big day:






















































And here are the few of the highlights from their bridals and groomals sessions:

Ballroom Dancers

Every time I pick up my camera I'm having fun. But often I am shooting for someone else (a wedding, a family portrait, senior photos, etc). Every now and then I get to just go out and have some fun. And that's what this was. FUN!

Morgan Leigh Newey and I had been talking about doing pictures for a little while and came up with the idea of doing some kind of ballroom dance type of photo shoot. And I love taking pictures of dancers! If you ever want to make a picture look good, try putting a dancer in it. It's like an automatic upgrade! :)

We got to talking about shooting at the Salt Lake City Library. I had shot some architectural pictures of the library almost 6 years ago and have been intrigued with it every since.

Morgan contacted Mike Hansen and asked if he would join us for the photo shoot. Mike is very experienced and was a wonderful addition to the photo session.

Below are a few of my favorite images from the session. Click any image to jump onto my web site to see the rest of the images.











And my favorite head shots of Morgan and Mike: